Lighting

Videos covering different aspects of lighting for photography and videography including the usage of LEDs, COBs, Panels, RGB lights, Bi-Color lights, full-spectrum, and high CRI lights (and bulbs) as well as mono lights, strobes, flash heads, spotlights, light modifiers, softboxes, grids, hard and soft lights.

Also tutorials on different lighting techniques, flat lighting, key light, fill light, hair light Butterfly Lighting, Loop Lighting, Rembrandt Lighting, Split Lighting, using sunlight (sunrise, sunset and blue hour lighting).

Lighting Basics: Creating Artificial Sunlight Indoors

by Iddo GenuthLightingNovember 16, 2019February 19, 2020

On this video filmmaker, Valentina Vee from Aputure talks to cinematographer Carissa Dorson who shares her vast experience as a DP and demonstrates how she lights a scene using artificial lights to recreate the…

Using Space Lights for Video and Cinema Productions

by Iddo GenuthTechnique LightingNovember 10, 2019January 14, 2021

In this video director Rubidium Wu (from crimsonengine) takes a look at the use of space lights for video and film productions and what they can be used for and…

Light like Roger Deakins: Using Cove lighting

by Iddo GenuthTechnique LightingOctober 14, 2019

On this interesting video director Rubidium Wu (from crimsonengine) takes a look at one of the lighting techniques employed by legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins called Cove lighting. Roger Deakins is…

What LED is Right for You? 5 LED Lights for Video

by Iddo GenuthPhoto Gear Gear Guides Lighting TechniqueAugust 18, 2019October 5, 2020

On this video guide, our colleague, photographer, and videographer Curtis Judd, take a look at several different LEDs and try and explain what he believes might be the best use…

Aputure Introduces the All New Updated LS 300d II COB Light

by Iddo GenuthPhoto Gear HDSLR New ProductsJuly 22, 2019July 22, 2019

Aputure continues to innovate in the lighting category and today it officially introduced the second generation LS 300d II COB workhorse. This new updated version is more sleek and powerful…

NAB 2019: Lighting Roundup

by Iddo GenuthPhoto Gear HDSLR New ProductsApril 14, 2019April 22, 2019

NAB which just ended didn’t bring too many cameras or lenses this year but there were plenty of new lights and lighting technologies and we made a short list of…

Tips for Photographing Glass

by Iddo GenuthTechnique Food Photography Lighting Photo TipsDecember 31, 2018

On this short 2 minute video by photographer David Bergman (with Adorama) there are a few tips for shooting glass in a studio environment. shooting reflective objects can be challenging but there are…

First Look: Lastolite Halo Compact Reflector (Photokina 2018)

by Iddo GenuthPhoto Gear LensVid Exclusive New ProductsNovember 10, 2018May 9, 2020

During Photokina 2018 we had a chance to check out the Lastolite booth and found a little product that seemed to slip under almost everybody’s noses but it might actually…

First Look at the Profoto B10

by Iddo GenuthPhoto Gear New ProductsSeptember 13, 2018

Earlier today Profoto announced a new portable self-powered flash head called the B10. this new unit is compact, yet powerful and includes a dual wireless control both via a long-range Air…

Tip: Making the Skies Blue While Keeping Skin-Tones

by Iddo GenuthTechnique Photo TipsAugust 11, 2018August 11, 2018

In this short video, Craig Beckta demonstrate how you can change the skies color in camera when shooting with a strobe to make There are all sorts of ways to…